Excerpts from the Press Briefing by Scott McClellan, September 9, 2003 (Full Transcript)

QUESTION: Scott, can you explain why the numbers for the
cost of rebuilding Iraq changed so much from when Josh spoke earlier
this summer, and he basically said there would be no supplemental, and
then lawmakers --

MR. McCLELLAN: No, no, wait, wait, wait, no, no, we always
said that we would be looking at a supplemental later for Iraq and
Afghanistan. That's the way we handled it last year. We said we would
-- in fact, Secretary Wolfowitz and OMB Director Bolten both testified
to that.